The beginning of fall endears itself to us. Even people who aren't huge fall fans tend to feel the excitement of the cooler breezes, shifting sunlight, and changing seasons. To capitalize on that end-of-summer, beginning-of-something-new feeling, I present to you three oily ways to welcome fall. ...

Last time, we took a look at the dōTERRA® Northern Escape blend, and I mentioned Hinoki as the component that added a note of airy relaxation. Today we’ll enter further into the woody, relaxing aroma of the ornamental Japanese hinoki tree. Picture a bonsai tree adorning a desk or garden. You...

Enter the woodland realm with dōTERRA Northern Escape®, a fantasy blend of Black Spruce, Siberian and Balsam Firs, Cedarwood, Cypress, Frankincense and more. Fans of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: is it just me, or does this blend take you straight to Rivendell? To me, there’s something about the...

Back to school can mean many things: back to homework, back to uniforms, back to the highs and lows of the academic calendar and the social interactions that accompany it. We’d be remiss to think that back to school means the same thing for everyone, and in this post I’d like to focus on using d...

Tea Tree, also known as Melaleuca, has a centuries-long history among the Australian Aborigines. These indigenous people would manually crush tea tree leaves to release their cleansing chemicals, then inhale the herbaceous aroma. With dōTERRA® Tea Tree Touch, it’s a bit easier than all that: we...

You’ve likely heard of turmeric, the spice that lends its yellow tone to foods like mustard and curry. It’s also possible you’ve seen turmeric supplements for sale at health food stores; and with turmeric spice powder being a staple in so many kitchen cupboards, it’s with some degree of basic...

Glow sticks swirl and fireworks explode in long evenings of playing outside, with bubbles floating through the air to the delighted laughs of little ones. For me, these are a few hallmarks of the summer season; and it’s a real treat to sit back and behold them all while I cool off and take in the...

In the new dōTERRA® TerraShieldTM Repellent Blend, six ingredients unite to shield you for a safer, more enjoyable summer season. Why call it new, you ask? While the name isn’t new, the essential oil formula received a recent makeover to optimize its repellent capabilities. The newly formulated...

In the seaside Mediterranean nation of Turkey, harvesters carry armfuls of green, feathery oregano sprigs. They’re full of leaves that will be dried and separated from the stem before being distilled, all part of a process that provides many jobs for local farmers. These fragrant herbal leaves...

The lifted spirits that accompany cries of “school’s out!” are enough to take me back to the taste of summer childhood joys. Frequent trips to the swimming pool, family vacations, and time to ponder life outside of school assignments all provide a beautiful season of growth for children and...

The kumquat is a small, orange-like citrus fruit full of cleansing properties and all the uplifting sweetness you’d expect from a tiny but mighty member of the citrus family. In Brazil, the rind of this little fruit — about the size of a large olive — is cold-pressed to extract dōTERRA® Kumquat...

How’s this for a satisfying irony: heading outdoors presents us with a world of buzzing, flying creatures that can really bother us. But heading outdoors also introduces us to a wonderful variety of plant life, the essence of which dōTERRA® specializes in bottling up for us. And one oil in...

When it comes to handling occasional discomfort, dōTERRA® Copaiba has it covered with natural support. If you take great care to avoid synthetic ingredients and toxicity in so many everyday products, why settle for anything less natural in this area? Before we dive into two comforting Copaiba...

And the Product of the Month goes to...Nye-OH-lee! Say it with me: nye-OH-lee. Not currently a permanent product offering, dōTERRA® Niaouli essential oil boasts a mega cleansing chemical profile that’s similar to both Tea Tree and Eucalyptus. Niaouli’s rejuvenating properties are well suited for...

What would you say if I told you that dōTERRA® created an essential oil blend specifically to embody the season of spring? I was surprised myself when I first looked at my bottle of Citrus Bloom® and saw the descriptor “Springtime Blend.” It was a perfectly fitting description of what happened...

With spring in the air, so is pollen, dust, and grime newly brought to light by the sun’s warming rays. As fresh breezes filter through your open windows and previously unnoticed layers of dirt grab your attention, I’m here to offer you some easy spring cleaning recipes to up the fresh factor...

Steam distilled from swaying blades of grass native to the humid wetlands of Nepal, dōTERRA® Palmarosa invites us to lean in, close our eyes, and drink in a beautiful, rose-like aroma. It’s easy to associate Palmarosa essential oil with Rose, the Queen of Oils, because of the similarity between...

Ginger. It’s a classic feminine name that easily pictures a lovely redhead or a dancing movie star. Ginger oil makes me think of Melissa oil in this one way: after learning about the oil, I like the name even more! Like a friend by this name you might already be thinking of — isn’t it...

There are so many resourceful uses for our essential oils around the house. The household member who most frequently manages the daily (beautiful) messes of family life is typically the expert in transforming items that are dirty, stinky, and stained into items that are clean and sweet smelling...

I just love it when dōTERRA® surprises me. While essential oils are definitely the “gift of the earth” they’re most passionate about delivering into our hands, that’s not where their support for holistic health ends. In fact, the oils we use won’t be free to work their maximum beneficial effects...